Alejandro Fernández Sordo

Fernández was an academic and worked as a professor of administrative and trade union law at his alma mater.^[2] He served as a member of the National Catholic Association of Propagandists.^[2] He was the founder of the University Student Union (SEU) in Asturias and worked as a press and propaganda delegate in that union.^[2] He also served as the councilor of the Oviedo City Council.^[2] He founded the National Union of Press, Radio, Television and Publicity in 1964 and was its first president.^[2] On 7 November 1969 he was appointed director general of the press at the Ministry of Information and Tourism and became a member of the Jury of Appeal of Professional Ethics of Journalists the same year.^[2] He was made the general secretary of the Trade Union Organization in October 1973.^[2]

He served as the minister of trade union relations in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Carlos Arias Navarro between 3 January 1974 and 11 December 1975.^[2][3] In 1976 he was appointed president of the Local Credit Bank and later, was the CEO of a construction company, Huarte.^[1]

Fernández married María de la Concepción Cabal Vega and had five children.^[1] He died in Madrid on 6 May 2009 and buried there next day.^[1][4]

Fernández was the recipient of the Order of Cisneros, the Order of Civil Merit and the Order of Isabella the Catholic.^[4]